Breast Augmentation Recovery
The days of a six-week breast augmentation recovery are long gone. In fact, the only operation that takes a full six weeks of recovery may be open heart surgery! Seriously though, even hip or knee replacements have shifted the recovery process to getting the patient up and moving within days and discharged to a rehab […]
Breast Augmentation: More Photos!
We’ve been busy with breast augmentation here in San Francisco. Busy, busy busy! Check out some of our latest before and after photos. All implants are silicone, under the muscle and placed through an incision within the crease underneath the breast. The patient in the top photo has shaped implants but all of the photos […]
Smooth or textured breast implants?
Similar to other age-old questions like cats vs dogs, tastes great vs less filling, Edward vs Jacob, Miley vs Taylor there’s smooth vs textured breast implants! Which is right for you? Let’s start with the simple one. If you want a more natural shape, not the fullness in the upper portion of the breast, […]
Saline to Silicone Breast Implant Exchange
In our continuing series of surgical videos via a head-mounted GoPro camera, we have a recently released video showing the exchange of a saline to silicone breast implant. There are various reasons why a patient would have their breast implants exchanged. It could be because the implant leaked or deflated. It could be because […]
Breast Augmentation: Round or Shaped?
In the past, the word “choice” in breast augmentation referred to several things: on top of the muscle or under the muscle, an incision under the breast or through the areola, saline or silicone. But now you have a new choice: round or shaped. Whether you get round or shaped implants is dependent on […]
Gummy Bear Implants
You’ve heard them described as gummy bear implants before but why? How are gummy bear implants different than all other implants? Before we get started, gummy bear implants, regardless of manufacturer or size, are all made of silicone. When it comes to silicone breast implants, it comes down to cohesiveness. This describes the thickness […]
Shaped Breast Implants
If you’re in the market for breast augmentation, you’ve probably read about shaped breast implants by now. As opposed to round implants, shaped breast implants have more of a tear-drop shape, that makes them potentially more natural appearing. Often when patients come in for a breast augmentation consult, they say they want […]
FDA Approves New Shaped Breast Implant
I recently blogged about the various silicone implants available in the US and my blog post is already out of date! In my post in December about silicone implants, we discussed the cohesiveness of the newest shaped breast implants – meaning, how cohesive the silicone inside the implant is and how that leads to safer, […]
The Age Old Question – Silicone vs Saline?! (and some other comparisons)
I’ve read a lot of articles comparing the different types of breast implants and what I’ve noticed time and again, is that in the process of explaining the similarities/differences of saline vs silicone, the “explainer” introduces other variables such as round vs shaped, smooth vs textured. And invariably, the “explainee” (that’s you) becomes even more […]
Comparison of Mentor, Allergan and Sientra Breast Implant Cohesiveness
Before you see you doctor about breast implant surgery, read this first! There are several types of implants among 3 manufacturers currently in the US. So it can be confusing to know what you want. Hopefully the information below will help you break things down. And before we get started, these are my opinions and […]